Grand Theft Auto 6’s first trailer this week is simply 90 seconds lengthy, however analyzing its hidden particulars and Easter eggs already appears to be a full-time job for some followers.
The trailer has racked up over 142 million views in only a week, and already 1000’s of posts are dissecting it for transient glimpses of issues others have missed. Listed below are a number of of our favorites that you could be not have seen but.
South Seaside is hopping in Vice Metropolis
The trailer made it clear that GTA 6 is making a critical effort to keep away from the relative vacancy of GTA’s earlier cities. Each shot, whether or not seaside or boulevard and even the open ocean, is full of automobiles, individuals, animals and gadgets.
Take this shot based mostly on Ocean Drive in South Seaside, which reveals a density of vehicles, pedestrians and different interactable options. When you zoom in on the panhandler sitting subsequent to the street, you may see an iguana on his shoulder.
There’s additionally a blink-and-you’ll-miss-it reference to Lance Vance’s sartorial type—we assume it is not likely him, since he died in GTA: Vice Metropolis. However on the sidewalk on the left aspect, there is a determine in shadow together with his construct sporting his signature white go well with and purple shirt.
The cops have stepped up their fleets
Police forces in earlier GTA video games have often proven off a brand new sedan in a cutscene or trailer, however in-game, it is just about the identical mannequin chosen for that recreation, on a regular basis. (The unique GTA: Vice Metropolis had the Portsmouth cruisers based mostly on the Plymouth Reliant, for instance.)
In distinction, the GTA 6 trailer has half a dozen totally different fashions, previous and new, with lifelike badging based mostly on Miami-area municipalities. The truth that a minimum of a few of these scenes seem like rendered in-game makes us assume that as you rack up needed stars, you are going to see much more selection screaming up behind you. And extra police fashions in your tail additionally means extra you may steal… and so they’re at all times the perfect vehicles within the recreation.
Does that automobile have a usable trunk?
Of us have been oohing and aahing on Reddit concerning the detailed vehicles within the trailer, mentioning the duct tape that is holding on the inside deal with on a automobile with its door open for example. One fascinating element is a automobile’s popped rear hatch in a single scene. In earlier leaked gameplay, the implication was that GTA’s automobile storage may be used for heists and the like. Is that this a nod towards the flexibility to retailer gadgets—clothes, weapons, and so forth—as you may in your horse in Pink Useless Redemption 2?
The advertisements all through the trailer for vinyl corporations, and the sight of a automobile with a raised suspension in a locale based mostly on the real-life Wynwood artwork district, has made of us speculate that more-detailed automobile customization may be a factor this time round, as effectively.
Zoom in wherever, see one thing new
One of many issues that makes the scenes within the trailer look so sensible is the completely packed quantity of element on practically each floor—and there are a variety of surfaces. Intricate textures in all places are the secret within the GTA 6 trailer:
Tank tops with these vertical material traces while you zoom inPaintings with detailed brush-stroke and canvas textures Chip luggage with lifelike wrinklesThe loops and dips in energy and information cables as they hook up with the poles (which have random stickers, and birds that perch on them)Accurately styled road lights and freeway indicators for South FloridaSand on the ft of the individuals on the beachMoss hanging from the barbed wire on the prisonThe cat’s eye street reflectors mirror mild in night time scenesLiquor bottles on cabinets with liquor in themReal reflections in automobile aspect view mirrors
It is all a bit of nuts. Apparently the Rockstar artists have, the truth is, been engaged on the sport over the previous decade.
There’s so much taking place down within the Keys
Builders needed to incorporate their very own model of the Florida Keys in Grand Theft Auto: Vice Metropolis as “Gator Keys,” however it was minimize. This time the trailer clearly reveals the Keys and the distinctive Rickenbacker Causeway bridge resulting in them, and there is a lot happening in that shot.
Zoom in and you will see dolphins within the water, tons of small boats and yachts right here and in different ocean places, some fairly unbelievable potential stunt soar places on the previous bridge/fishing pier alongside it with its breaks within the street, and is {that a} blimp within the prime of the body? (Please let or not it’s a blimp—I used to be a complete fan of the controllable Atomic Blimp over Los Santos in GTA 5, and blimps have been added to GTA On-line a number of years again, too.)
Different airborne enjoyable within the advert contains the banner-towing planes over Vice Metropolis’s model of South Seaside—the membership announcement you may see within the trailer (“Nine1Nine: Why Sixty 9 When You Can 9 1 9”) is a reference to the favored, actual South Seaside hangout E11even, which employs comparable plane-hauled promoting in actual life.
Is that correct water physics we spy?
A number of pictures within the trailer present what seems to be new physics for interplay with water. Take a look at the flamingos taking off at :21, or the speedboats at :23, or the monster truck plowing by way of muddy water in a single body at :50 and once more at :56. That is water truly being displaced by shifting objects, which is a degree of sophistication we have not seen in a GTA earlier than.
That additionally implies that we will spend extra time within the water, and seeing so many interactable-looking boats, yachts, water animals (take a look at that throwback shark!) and beachfront, I am unable to wait.
Tom Petty songs and GTA go means again
Florida native Tom Petty’s “Love is a Lengthy Street” is the soundtrack of the GTA 6 trailer, a shocking selection for a contemporary-set recreation. Petty launched “Love is a Lengthy Street” in 1989 as a part of his first solo album, Full Moon Fever. He died in 2017 from an unintended overdose of ache medicine after fracturing his hip.
This is not the primary time Petty’s had a music in a GTA, although: The artist cherished having “Runnin’ Down a Dream”—arguably the perfect driving music ever made—in GTA: San Andreas, his property mentioned in an announcement.
“Lengthy Street” is a nod to the connection of the pair within the trailer, maybe winks on the 10 years of growth time (not over but!) on GTA 6, and reveals its power as successful in its personal proper. Although it was solely the B aspect to “Free Fallin’,” Petty’s largest hit ever, “Lengthy Street” surged 8,000 p.c in streaming reputation after the GTA trailer hit, Billboard wrote. It additionally noticed a 37,000 p.c improve in Spotify streams, in line with the New York Instances, and was searched a quarter-million occasions on Shazam inside 24 hours. It soared to #2 on the Apple iTunes listing, simply after Mariah Carey’s “All I Need for Christmas Is You.”
Petty mentioned when he wrote the music, one of many final on the album, that he was impressed by the sound of shifting gears on a motorbike when creating the distinctive chords. It is going to be excellent for lengthy drives on these Vice Metropolis highways. When the couple within the trailer kick within the doorways to the comfort retailer, there’s a “Petty Ceaselessly” bumper sticker on the glass, within the actual colours of the Full Moon Fever cowl.
The trailer’s faux social media posts are based mostly on real-life Florida Males (and Ladies)
We have written about this individually, however practically each scene-setting shot delivered by way of satirical social media within the GTA 6 trailer is an homage to real-life social media trenders in Miami. That lady twerking on the roof of the automobile, the double-hammer-wielding housewife, the Joker-esque tattoo man, countless references to gators invading companies and residential swimming pools—all exist in the actual world.
Briefly, the Grand Theft Auto 6 trailer packs a ridiculous quantity of element into 90 seconds. The dangerous information is that we’ll have to attend till a minimum of 2025 to play it ourselves—and doubtless longer for the PC model.
